Weather-boarding gage.



0. C. WATKINS.-

WEATHER BOARDING GAGE.

APPLICATION FILED 0:013. 1916.

1,229,356. Patented June 12, 1917. I

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WEATHER-BOARDING GAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN C. WVA'ITKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, Butler county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather-Boarding Gages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a tool. designed to facilitate the accuracy and rapidity of the work of weatherboarding, and will be readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the gage:

Fig. 2 an elevation of a structure being weather-boarded and illustrating uses of my improved gage: and I Fig. 3 an elevation of a single weatherboard illustrating a use of the gage.

A diversity of scales is employed in the drawing.

In the drawing 1, indicates a vertical bar having a true straight front edge or surface and having a true straight side edge or surface:

2, the side edge of the bar:

3, a first jaw disposed at the rear of the bar and projecting sidewise from the sideedge of the bar at right angles to that edge:

4, the front edge of the bar:

5, a front extension for the first jaw 3, the front surface of this extension being flush with the front surface 4 of the bar, parts 3 and 5 causing the first jaw to have a fore-and-aft width equal to the width of bar 4 plus the portion of the first jaw 3 which projects rearwardly of the bar:

6, a second jaw projecting from the side edge of the bar a distance equal to the side projection of the first jaw:

7 a third jaw at the rear of the bar and forming a prolongation of the first jaw in a direction opposite that in which the first jaw projects, the lower surface of the third jaw 7 being flush with the under surface of the first jaw 3, the jaws 3 and 7 together forming a T-head at the rear of the upper end of the bar:

8, a spirit-level carried by the bar on the side opposite jaws 3 and 6 and having its axis parallel with the plane of the outer ends of those jaws:

9, a socket carried by the bar and adapted to receive a pencil or scriber: and

10, aweatherboard.

I employ the terms front, side,upper, etc., for convenience in description with special reference to the gage as it appears in Fig. 1 of the drawing, it being understood that the gage may be used in a variety ofvpositions and that such expressions as have been mentioned are to be considered in their relative sense only.

The lower surfaces of jaws 3 and 7 are, as have'been stated, to be even with each other. The front surfaces of the bar and of jaws 6 and of jaw extension 5 are to be in a common plane, and the length of the bar between the upper and lower jaws should be in excess of the width of the weatherboarding to be dealt with.

By hanging the gage upon the upper edge of a weatherboard, as in Fig. 3, its edge 2 forms the edge of a T-square at right angles to its head. By giving the bar a quarter turn, on the rear corner of its edge 2 as an axis, the gage may hang upon the weatherboard in the position indicated at the left in Fig. 2, and in either position of the gage it may be readily shifted along the weatherboard. In cuttingweatherboarding the first act is to square the end of the board, and in doing this it is usual to employ a try-square. In doing this work with my improved gage the gage is applied as illustrated in Fig. 3, the jaws 3 and 7 forming the head of a T- square, the face 2 of the bar being at right angles to the under surface of the head. The weatherboard is then scribed along the face 2. Fig. 2 illustrates a board as being fitted to go between a corner-board and a window-frame. In marking off the lefthand end of this board, the try-square would answer the purpose if the corner-board were known to be plumb. But corner-boards and window-fra1nes are often out of plumb 3 and my gage is used instead of a try-square, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The board having been properly positioned vertically, the gage is set with the jaws 3 and 6 against the corner-board, the gage straddling the weatherboard, and the weatherboard is then scribed along the face 4, the mark thus scribed representing a out which will correspond with the corner-board regardless of whether the corner-board be plumb or not. The procedure is the same in'scribing at the right-hand end of the board, except that the gage is in this case reversed endwise so as the window frame.

In weatherboarding it is customary to measure up from the bottom of the last board and temporarily set two nailsto serve as rests for the board to be applied. If this plan be followed Without any checking sys-r tend the result may be an accumulative error as the work proceeds. My gage may be eniployed in leveling the board being applied, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the extremities-of jaws3 and 6 resting on the upper edge of the board being dealt with.

A vii eatherboarding gage comprising a vertical bar having a true straight front edge and a true straight side edge, a first jaw disposed at the rear of the upper end of the bar and projecting transversely of the side edge of the bar, a front extension of said first jaw having its front surface in the plane of the front edge of the bar, a second jaw disposed at the lower end of the bar and projecting from the side edge of the bar a distance equalto the projection of the first jaw from that edge and having its front surface in the plane of the front edge of the bar, and a third jaW disposed at the rear of the bar and projecting transversely of the bar in the direction opposite that of the first jaw and having its lower surface in the plane of the lower surface of the vfirst jaw and at right angles to the side edge of the bar combined substantially as set forth.

OWEN C. WATKINS. WVitnesses:

ED'W. H. NEIN, Louis T. NEIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

